On 31 May 2012 04:47, Martin Cigorraga <msx@archlinux.us> wrote:
From my subjective own experience, it don't, the only thing I don't activate when my laptop is plugged is the mouse switch since it instructs the system to turnoff the USB port whenever there's no activity on it and that can be very annoying, believe me xD Combining Powertop 2 with Liquorix kernel, Ulatencyd, e4rat, preload and some more fancy tweakes here and there -sysctl.conf, grub kernel line, etc.- I have a feather-light, lightspeed KDE SC full suite with every eye candy effect on and the best part is my notebook -Pavilion dv7-4287cl- reminds _cool_ all the time.
-- -msx
One thing that bugs me is the tunables section - you have to open up powertop every time you boot to set it correctly. I wish there was some way to just say "ok powertop - make all of the tunables good just by running" or "ok powertop make x y and z good, based on this tunable config file". Seems like that would be a good feature.